Mounting plasters and other adhesive faced articles



um 7 w32- R. P. HAYDEN ET AL MOUNTING PLASTERS AND OTHER ADHESIVE FAC-ED ARTICLES Filed Deo. 3l, 1930 lPatented June 7, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE A ROBERT P. HAYDEN AND FRANK N. MANLEY, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW J EBSEY, AS-

SIGNORS TO JOHNSON 8c JOHNSON, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, JERSEY, A. CORPORA- TION OF NEW JERSEY MOUNTING PLASTEBS AND OTHER ADHESIVE FACED ARTICLES Application led December 31, 1930. Serial No. 505,951.

Medicated plasters and the like adhesive faced articles usuall are mounted on facing cloth, such as crino ine, to prevent promiscuous sticking during transit and storage, the clothbeing removed immediately before the artcle is put into service. The removal of the cloth not only is an awkward, not to say difficult operation, but the use of cloth is expensive.

Our invention is vaddressed to the proposition of dispensing with the use of crinoline or the like foundation fabric by a vastly superior method of mounting plasters and otheradhesive faced articles, whereby the removal of the articles becomes a very simple operation.

rlhe nature of the invention consists in mounting plasters and other adhesive faced articles on sheeted material, such as crinkled paper and fluted paper, which presents spaced points of Contact and which 1s extensible or expansible in its plane such that when extended or straightened out in response to opposed endwise pulling strain, large plasters instantly will be released and small articles of ring form, such as corn plasters, gaskets and the like actually will be expelled or flipped into space.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof,

Figure 1 is a plan View showing a so-called kidney plaster or other body plaster mounted in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing annular bodies mounted in accordance with the invention.

Figs. 3 and 4 are edge views of varied forms of mounting, and l Fig. 5 is a view principally in diagram showing how in response to exerted, opposed, edgewise pull the facing strip has been straightened and has released the adhesive faced commodity.

According to our invention we mount adhesive faced bodies, such as plasters and the like, on relatively stiff crinkled paper or liuted paper or paper otherwise formed to provide elevated spaced points of contact or support for the adhesive faced commodity whatever it may be. In Fig. 1 the crinkled paper is shown at 5 and it forms a temporary facing for an adhesive faced body plaster 6.

It will be understood that in an application of this kind, that is to say, where the length of the article is greater than its width, it w11l be applied to the paper at right angles to the valleys and humps thereof so that in response to opposed edgewise pulling strain making for straightening effort or expansion of the paper in its own plane, the spaced points of contact afforded by the humps will immediately resolve themselves into the flat plane of the paper with the result that the plaster or other commodity being thereby instantly released from its bond, can be removed with facility and dispatch.

The described mounting is particularly advantageous for corn plasters and other adhesive faced ring shaped articles such as gas-4 kets and the like. Such an assembly is shown in Fig. 2 in which 7 is the extensible facing and 8 the commodity carried thereby.

Fig. 3 shows an extensible facing in the formlof crinkled paper providing elevated points of line Contact 9 separated by troughs or valleys l0; and Fig. 4 is a carrying forward of this idea in the form of more or less uniformly fluted paper to provide elevated line contact as at 1l.

Fig. 5 illustrates in principal and substance the reduction to practice of the inventive thought, the dotted line representing the relative arrangement of the commodity and facing when associated, and the flat line indicating how in response to exerted pull, the crinkles or flutes have been straightened out in the plane of the facing with the manifest result of releasing or expelling the artiy cles carried thereby.

What we claim as new 1s 1. A plaster or other adhesive faced article 2. A plurality of adhesive faced articles,

and means for supporting and carrying them in a substantially common plane and presenting spaced points of contact for each of 5 said articles, sald means consisting of fairly stii crinkled paper, whereby, in response to exerted effort tending to remove the crinkles, the articles arereleased from bondage.

In testimony whereof we alix our signatures.

ROBERT P. HAYDEN. FRANK N. MANLEY. 

